Its today?

Best of luck,- Go wreck some PRs!

yeah, the 1st flight starts in 3 hours. Thanks!

Update your log already! :-)

You bastard! Saw that there was new post in cha’s log only for it to be this instead of a discussion on his results.

It was a good day. I went 5 / 9 on my lifts including meet PRs for squat (705), bench press (523) and total (1,901). All of the meet PRs are also UPA American records for my age (50-54) and body weight (220 - 242.5).

Videos and more discussion coming soon.

Congrats on the PRs!

Youtube editor no longer works. Does anyone know the easiest way to do something like it used to do?

squat 645
On this one, the pins were set about one notch too high, so I didnt get quite as wide as I wanted and it just felt "off". I got it anyway.

2nd squat attempt was 705 - I missed because I got about an inch or two forward. It stalled halfway up. I'm not strong enough to recover from getting that much weight that far forward.

3rd attempt: squat 705 meet PR + 5.5


bench 523 meet PR + 5.5

I missed 551 twice. Both times the bar path went towards my belt. The 3rd attempt was closer, but not much over halfway up. Bar path matters a lot.


DLs, lolfacepalm. Warmups did not go well. I put my suit on and no one was around to help load plates. Loading plates with briefs and a suit on and shoulder straps up is not good. Pulling the 5 plate warmup was good, but everything leading up to it was a struggle.

After that pull, I went to watch a teammate pull his 3rd attempt in the earlier flight. I came back to the warmup room with the mindset that I did not want to bend over and load plates anymore. My next warmup was to be 555 before my 612 opener. I looked at the bar and it had some 45s and a 25 and a 5 on it. The guy that later pulled 804 had just pulled and I thought he had done 555, so I walked over and started pulling. About halfway up I could tell it was moving way slower than it should. I say "geez, this feels heavy", letting half of my air out before I finish locking it out. After I put it down, I counted the 45s. There were 6 on there. I had just warmed up for my 612 opener by pulling 495 and 645. I dont know if that affected my last attempt or not.

DL 612
easy

DL 672
Harder than it should have been because I was leaning forward slightly. This one took a lot out of me.

I'll post the feeble attempt of 683 here for the lols from the comment by the announcer guy.
DL 683 miss
"and the judges rob him...." - lol

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Ship it!

Congrats man. Did you think about passing on your opening dl cause your warm up was 642 or whatever?

Awesome sauce!

Thanks!

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I gave that about two seconds of thought. I wanted to get an easy opener in then set myself up for at least 1900. I decided the way I did it would be best. The people there with me generally agreed. It worked out fine. I'll never know if pulling that 645 kept me from getting 683 later or not though. Hopefully none of that will matter to me after my next meet.

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Why did you need the easy opener? If your goal was 1900 just open with 670ish after the mistake warming up. Cause the opener you did does nothing toward you getting 1900. If your goal was a mid 1800 total, your plan after the mistake makes sense

Because I wanted to be sure not to bomb out first. 612 is basically a warmup to get the 1900 and it makes it more sure that I do not bomb. Taking 672 as the opener increases the chances of bombing out. Taking the 612 as the opener did little or nothing to diminish the chance of getting 672. That's what I was thinking and after doing the 612, I feel the same way. Here's the 612 video:

612 DL

As a meet day coach I approve of opening DL at 612.

He had 2 records to protect, and it was not like he needed a third attempt at 750, so opening light is a good idea.

Biggest mistake was durdling about im warmup.

Gratz on PRs Cha!

Also I dont know what to use after youtube editor died

Both sides are valid.

If you care about age class records or that sort of thing, you take the light first.

If you care solely about lifting the most weight possible, there's no reason to take a light first.

I used to compete with someone who would wait as long as possible to enter the competition for certain throws, he only cared about the big numbers and would have never been happy with less than a big # or PR anyway. Always respected that.

Nice work Cha!

Thanks!

yup.

The records matter a little. Moving up the board on powerliftingwwatch.com matters a little. Getting over a 1900 lb total and a meet PR matters a little. Being best geared lifter at the meet matters a little. Also, I never bombed out of a meet and I still never want to. Add it all up and that is why I compete.

I was competing only vs a guy who I already had crushed, as there were only two full-meet geared lifters in this meet and they did not use the formula to combine geared and raw. The only way I could lose to him was to bomb out. I wish they would have used the geared/raw multiplier and allowed me to compete vs the raw people. I crushed the guy who won best overall lifter at the meet if we used that conversion formula - he won cash and some other nice prizes. Since the geared field was so small, they just gave me a plastic medal.

As far as big PRs go, I was not going to have any chance at pulling 711 Saturday, so setting a big DL PR wasnt on my mind. 2000 was out of the question too at that point.

Hopefully, bigger and more important things happen at APF nationals. As of right now, I am pretty happy with what did happen.



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Nice meet, Cha!

Congrats cha! Not too bad considering where your neck was at a few months ago.

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Thanks! yeah, I didnt know if or when I could bench press again. My knee was very bad too - prior to the procedure, I could not squat to parallel with no weight without pain. Now there is no knee pain from squatting. My doc is one of the best there is.

Very awesome Cha! Congrats on the PRs and the win.

Thanks!